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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Nicaragua
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Date: 25 Jan 88 13:10:28 GMT
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In article <2469@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman) writes:
> 
> 
> I have a challenge here for those who feel strongly about Nicaragua.
> 
> What would it take to change your mind about the Sandinistas
> intentions? Don't give something stupid, like "I will decide the
> Sandinistas are bad people if they start throwing all the Miskitos in
> gas chambers." but something reasonable.


When the Sandinistas let their political opponents assemble without harassment
from government-directed mobs or government officials, when the opposition
press can print that Ortega is an idiot and that the government policies are
ruining the country, when they kick out the Cubans.  Except for San Marino,
I know of no place where Stalinists (I will not accept that they are Marxists)
have allowed any political activity which threatened their dictatorship.
The Sandinistas have absolutely no understanding of democracy.

-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet